VIRGINIA LAW PORTAL

• Code of Virginia
• Virginia Administrative Code
• Constitution of Virginia
• Charters
• Authorities
• Compacts
• Uncodified Acts
• RIS Users (account required)

SEARCHABLE DATABASES

• Bills & Resolutions
  session legislation
• Bill Summaries
  session summaries
• Reports to the General Assembly
  House and Senate documents
• Legislative Liaisons
  State agency contacts

ACROSS SESSIONS

• Subject Index: Since 1995
• Bills & Resolutions: Since 1994
• Summaries: Since 1994

Developed and maintained by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.

2020 SESSION

• history | hilite | pdf | print version

20106440D
HOUSE BILL NO. 1030 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the House Committee on Labor and Commerce on January 28, 2020) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Roem) A BILL to amend and reenact § 8 of the second enactment of Chapter 296 of the Acts of Assembly of 2018, relating to electrical transmission lines.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 8 of the second enactment of Chapter 296 of the Acts of Assembly of 2018 is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 8. The provisions of this enactment shall not be construed to limit the ability of the State Corporation Commission to approve additional applications for placement of transmission lines underground. Approval by the State Corporation Commission of a transmission line for inclusion in the program pursuant to § 2 of the second enactment of this act shall preclude the placement of future overhead electrical transmission lines of at least 69 kilovolts in the same right-of-way as described in § 2 of this act for a period of 10 years from the effective date of this act but shall not preclude the placement of (i) any underground transmission lines in such right-of-way or (ii) any electrical distribution lines in such right-of-way.